Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Alexander Frame Lithgow (1 December 1870 in Glasgow 12 July 1929 in Launceston, Tasmania) was a Scottish-born, New Zealand and Australian based composer and bandleader known as the "Sousa of the Antipodes". His name for some reason is pronounced by the family as AleK. In 1876, the Lithgows emigrated to Invercargill, New Zealand aged 6. Alex went to Invercargill Grammar School (now Invercargill Middle School). He attended Invercargill's Presbyterian Church, First Church. He liked Ice Hockey, the Circus and Rugby. His family was musical, performing as the six-member Lithgow Concert Company around Southland.